<p>If you choose to send your common app through the mail, rather than applying online, must you type or handwrite on the application, or can you complete the application online, print it out, and mail that?</p>
<p>You can certainly complete it online, print it, and mail it.</p>
<p>You can do either. It looks neater if you type it online and then print it out, but either is fine.</p>
<p>If you print out the on-line application, it will have a "student copy" watermark on it. Very annoying. I don't know if colleges care about it though.</p>
<p>That watermark must be new as of this year.</p>
<p>Yes, this is a problem...it forces the kids to apply online..unless the colleges don't care..might be worth a call...</p>